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Monday, April 8, 2013

Weekly Challenge #113

Happy Monday everyone!
First of all, as always - a few house keeping items:

If you're NEW here (and there've been a lot of new additions to the
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The
limit of submissions to the slideshow is TWO, but please feel free to
post as many as you like to your blogs. I will take the first two
presented to each challenge.

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Happy Monday!

Thank you, everyone, for being patient this week... feels like one of those days where nothing is going right.... oh, technology..

I feel like now that i'm a stay at home mom, there's not much to report on - every day seems very much like the one before... full of cranky boys, and happy boys, and silly boys, and singing boys, and sleeping boys, and crying boys... and any variation of the above at any given moment.

Artoo has been working on his most amazing smile this week. We are so excited to see this, because when he was born and we were given his initial diagnosis of Moebius Syndrome, we were told he will never smile. He's proving them wrong, and i just thank all my lucky stars that he is light on the spectrum, and i'll take this smile a million times - any day of the week.

a drawing of a zombie carrot, by Chewie

PROUD!

It seems that in the past week or so, Chewie has really developed a love of drawing, and he is content to sit and colour in his journal - right now he's really into drawing Zombie Carrots.

awesome.

On the weekend B-rad and i were able to enjoy a night out! my mom came over and watched Artoo so we could go to a family wedding out of town (in a small town nearby). It was nice to have fun and dance with all my little nieces and nephews, and to relax and have a drink...or two. ;)

Chewie got to stay overnight with his cousins, and he couldn't have been happier!

Me and Chewie and my sister in law's middle daughter

Also - i love this man.

mwah!

Weekly Challenge #113: String Theory v. XXIV "Hip to be Square"

This week's challenge is a string challenge - an easy string for everyone to do. i started with my dots, and border, creating a square. Inside that, i drew a few more squares and went from there.

...a box in a box in a box in a box in...

i think there's a lot of possibility in this string, and i'll probably do it again sometime. i have some ideas percolating in my brain. ;)

So, begin with a square and keep adding squares, one inside the other! Also, i just realized that this challenge goes beautifully along side the latest post from Rick and Maria on the Zentangle blog - Synchronicity!! Go and check it out for some lovely inspiration!

Have fun!

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but still want to participate, you can email your tile to me and i will
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The
deadline for each weekly challenge is Saturday night so that i can round everyone up by Sunday. What this means is that i will stop adding
tiles to the slideshow on Sunday. You're still more than welcome to do
the challenges and add your name to the linkey machine.

I will be
more diligent with the linkey machine - by editing out the ones that
don't work, the doubles, the links that lead to nowhere, the links that
go just to blog home pages (this is why we need those site specific
urls), and the spam. And there is some spam. PLEASE do not put your
*home* page in the linkey machine... please? for me??

I haven't been doing the tangles since #100....but I still love to check in on you and your fabulous family every once in awhile..and all the great tangles~ And want to tell you that is the most beautiful smile I think I have EVER seen!!! Bless you and yours!

Not much happening...Artoo is smiling??? Way to go Mom! That in itself is amazing. And I know that sunshiney Chewie will be helping him along. Don't ever for one minute minimize the amazing things you and your wonderful family unit can accomplish. Miracles? Maybe yes, maybe no, but amazing never the less.

I agree Artoo is smiling! I love the photos you share with us! I am so glad that you were able to overcome the glitch! I was challenged this week in a big way and I give you a big thank you! Your tile is an inspiration of beauty!

Sounds like it was a good week in the Harms' household. I love Artoo's sweet, sweet smile, and from the rest of your pictures it looks like everyone was smiling this week! Thanks for sharing your family with us Laura.

I uploaded mine for grins and giggles. I forgot to bring anything to work with (to work) today so ended up using regular paper, a mechanical pencil, and an ultra fine black Sharpie. I wanted to do this for practice and without getting inspiration before I did. I made it as far as my outer square before I ran out of "knowledge" and ideas. So... Linda Selymes your tangle was my outside square inspiration. (I hope that is OK with you!)

Your lovely smiley faces were just what I needed to get me smiling too. Love the challenge as it is making sure I find time to tangle each week. I am rather late again this week - been on grandma duty - I've said it before and am sure I'll say it many times more - I don't know how you do all you do.

What a precious smile! I have to say I love Chewie's zombie carrots. I hope he expands into other zombie veggies. I think zombie broccoli would be particularly fun! :). Thanks for the fun challenge. I'm glad I could play along.

This was really fun to made. I just let it flow, as it came up to my mind.This is my first taking part in a challenge like this so I hope you like the result and it's ok if my first tangles are linked within my pinterest-board until I have a blog for my zentangles :)

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